Stealth bombs? Killer plagues? Don't panic, just follow the money | Simon Jenkins

Politicians and scientists have a vested interest in propagating panic: it's the one superbug there's no known antidote for

Now it is planes falling from the sky. On Tuesday it was "superbugs threaten return to dark ages". At the weekend it was internet thought-control menace. Last week we had killer fruit juice. The edifice of fear knows no limits, its apparatchiks know no shame.

Had the Guardian leaked yesterday's story from the US about a "stealth bomb alert" at worl...